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I am the chief cook and bottle washer,” says the Sister of Christian Charity. “I do all that has to do at with the house.”
A native of Reading, Pennsylvania, Sister Marie Cecilia Landis of the Assumption College for Sisters leads a busy life, describing herself as the “chief cook and bottle washer” for the sisters. But she is definitely a happy person, apparently fulfilling a life dream.
Raised in a Catholic household, she noted that her mother was devout, and her father converted to the faith when she took him to Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament at St. Catherine of Siena Parish in Mount Penn, Reading. “Not only did he become a convert,” she said, “but he said he would still have been a Catholic even if they had not married.”
In grade school at St. Catherine of Siena, she was part of a group of students who took down laundry for the Sisters at St. Catherine’s Convent and would then clean the convent, the chapel, the dining room and the parlor in the afternoon. In the summer before her high school, the principal came into the school office while the girls were checking envelopes in books, and said that the Sisters in the parish had lost their cook.
“My friend and I said, ‘We will cook for you,’” she said. “Yes, we can cook, and the Sister said ‘You are hired at $5 a day. And then it dawned on us — she was not kidding. The first week, we struggled. The second week we got it down. Then months into it, my friend left, and I got the job. I love cooking.”
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Sister Cecilia Landis’ Simply Heavenly Pork Chops
A native of Reading, Pennsylvania, Sister Marie Cecilia Landis of the Assumption College for Sisters leads a busy life, describing herself as the “chief cook and bottle washer” for the sisters. But she is definitely a happy person, apparently fulfilling a life dream.
Raised in a Catholic household, she noted that her mother was devout, and her father converted to the faith when she took him to Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament at St. Catherine of Siena Parish in Mount Penn, Reading. “Not only did he become a convert,” she said, “but he said he would still have been a Catholic even if they had not married.”
In grade school at St. Catherine of Siena, she was part of a group of students who took down laundry for the Sisters at St. Catherine’s Convent and would then clean the convent, the chapel, the dining room and the parlor in the afternoon. In the summer before her high school, the principal came into the school office while the girls were checking envelopes in books, and said that the Sisters in the parish had lost their cook.
“My friend and I said, ‘We will cook for you,’” she said. “Yes, we can cook, and the Sister said ‘You are hired at $5 a day. And then it dawned on us — she was not kidding. The first week, we struggled. The second week we got it down. Then months into it, my friend left, and I got the job. I love cooking.”
Continued below.
Sister Cecilia Landis’ Simply Heavenly Pork Chops